Australian Slang
Animals | Behaviour | Events | Objects | People | Phrases | Places
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Aerial pingpong : |
Australian Rules football |
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Amber fluid : |
beer |
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Avos : |
avocados |
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Barbie : |
barbecue (noun) |
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Bathers : |
swimming costume |
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Bikkie : |
biscuit |
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Billy : |
large tin can to boil water
over a campfire |
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Bitumen : |
surfaced road |
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Bondi cigar : |
muck floating in the sea |
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Boogie board : |
body board |
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Boomerang : |
Aboriginal tool for hunting |
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Booze bus : |
police van for breathalysing |
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Brekkie : |
breakfast |
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Brown-eyed mullet : |
muck floating in the sea |
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Bull bar : |
stout bar fixed to the front
of a vehicle |
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Bull dust : |
outback dust |
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Bush telly : |
campfire |
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Bush tucker : |
native outback food |
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Chewie : |
chewing gum |
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Chokkie : |
chocolate |
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Chunder : |
vomit |
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Clobber : |
clothes |
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Coldie : |
a beer |
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Compo : |
Workers' Compensation pay |
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Counter lunch / meal : |
pub lunch |
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Cozzie : |
swimming costume |
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Cut lunch : |
sandwiches |
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Daks : |
trousers |
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Damper : |
bread made from flour and water |
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Date : |
behind (rear end) |
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Didgeridoo : |
Aboriginal instrument |
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Dilly bag : |
Aboriginal carrying bag |
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Docket : |
a bill, receipt |
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Donger : |
penis |
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Doodle : |
penis |
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Doozey : |
something very pleasant, significant,
large |
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Duchess : |
sideboard |
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Dunny : |
outside lavatory |
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Durry : |
cigarette |
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Esky : |
coolbox |
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Fairy floss : |
candy floss, cotton candy |
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Flake : |
shark meat |
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Fly wire : |
gauze flyscreen covering a window
or doorway |
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Franger : |
condom |
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Freckle : |
anus |
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Grog : |
alcohol / beer |
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Grundies : |
underwear |
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Handle : |
beer glass with a handle |
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Hottie : |
hot water bottle |
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Icy pole : |
ice lolly |
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Jocks : |
male pants |
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Kero : |
kerosene |
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Knacker : |
testicle |
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Lemon : |
faulty product |
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Lippy : |
lipstick |
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Liquid laugh : |
vomit |
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Lollies : |
sweets |
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Loo : |
toilet |
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Mappa Tassie : |
females pubic hair area |
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Matilda : |
swagman's bedding, sleeping
roll |
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Metho : |
methylated spirits |
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Middy : |
New South Wales beer glass (285ml) |
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Muddy : |
mud crab |
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Munchies : |
snacks, nibbles |
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Pav : |
Pavlova |
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Plonk : |
cheap wine |
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Pokies : |
fruit machines |
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Port : |
suitcase |
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Pot : |
Large beer (in Victoria) |
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Prezzy : |
present, gift |
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Rego : |
vehicle registration |
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Road train : |
a very big lorry with many trailors |
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Rollie : |
a cigarette that you roll yourself |
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Sanger : |
a sandwich |
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Schooner : |
large beer glass in QLD and
NSW |
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Schooner : |
small beer glass in South Australia |
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Scratchy : |
instant lottery ticket |
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Shout : |
a round of drinks |
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Slab : |
crate of beer |
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Snag : |
a sausage |
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Spag bol : |
spaghetti bolognese |
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Strides : |
trousers |
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Stubby : |
a 375ml beer bottle |
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Stubby holder : |
beer bottle cooler |
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Sunnies : |
sunglasses |
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Swag : |
roll up canvas bed for camping |
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Thongs : |
flip flops |
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Tinny : |
can of beer / small aluminium
boat |
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Togs : |
swimming stuff |
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Trackies : |
track suit |
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Tucker : |
food |
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Tucker-bag : |
food bag |
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Turps : |
alcoholic drink |
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Ute : |
utility vehicle |
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Vedgies : |
vegetables |
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Vee dub : |
Volkswagen |
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Whipper Snipper : |
garden strimmer |
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XXXX : |
Four X, Queensland brand of
beer |
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Zack : |
sixpence (5 cents) |
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